The remote FTP server contains world-writeable directories allowing unauthorized write access
Reporter | Title | Published | Views | Family All 4 |
---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | CVE-1999-0527 | 4 Feb 200005:00 | – | cvelist |
![]() | CVE-1999-0527 | 1 Jan 199905:00 | – | nvd |
![]() | Anonymous FTP Writable root Directory | 22 Jun 199900:00 | – | nessus |
![]() | CVE-1999-0527 | 4 Feb 200005:00 | – | cve |
# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2006 TNS
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
# source(s), and are Copyright (C) by the respective right holder(s).
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
if(description)
{
script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.19782");
script_version("2023-08-01T13:29:10+0000");
script_cve_id("CVE-1999-0527");
script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2023-08-01 13:29:10 +0000 (Tue, 01 Aug 2023)");
script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2006-03-26 17:55:15 +0200 (Sun, 26 Mar 2006)");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"10.0");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C");
script_name("FTP Writeable Directories");
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2006 TNS");
script_family("FTP");
script_dependencies("ftpserver_detect_type_nd_version.nasl");
script_require_ports("Services/ftp", 21);
script_mandatory_keys("ftp/banner/available", "ftp/anonymous_ftp/detected");
script_tag(name:"summary", value:"The remote FTP server contains world-writeable files.
By crawling through the remote FTP server, several directories were marked as being world
writeable.");
script_tag(name:"impact", value:"An attacker may use this misconfiguration problem to use the
remote FTP server to host arbitrary data, including possibly illegal content (ie: Divx movies,
etc...).");
script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Configure the remote FTP directories so that they are not
world-writeable.");
script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"Mitigation");
script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"remote_banner");
exit(0);
}
include("ftp_func.inc");
include("misc_func.inc");
include("port_service_func.inc");
global_var CheckedDir;
global_var WriteableDirs;
global_var Mode;
global_var Saved_in_KB;
MODE_WRITE = 1;
MODE_CHECK_PERM = 2;
if( safe_checks() ) {
Mode = MODE_CHECK_PERM;
} else {
Mode = MODE_WRITE;
}
# nb: Don't use ftp/login or ftp_get_kb_creds as both might contain a different user
login = get_kb_item( "ftp/anonymous/login" );
pwd = get_kb_item( "ftp/anonymous/password" );
function crawl_dir( socket, directory, level ) {
local_var port, soc2, r, dirs, array, dir, sep, str, alreadyadded;
if( level > 20 ) return 0;
if( directory[strlen( directory ) - 1] == "/" ) {
sep = "";
} else {
sep = "/";
}
if( CheckedDir[directory] ) return 0;
port = ftp_pasv( socket:socket );
if( ! port ) return 0;
soc2 = open_sock_tcp( port );
if( ! soc2 ) return 0;
dirs = make_list();
alreadyadded = 0;
if( Mode == MODE_WRITE ) {
vt_strings = get_vt_strings();
str = vt_strings["default_rand"];
send( socket:socket, data:'MKD ' + directory + sep + str + '\r\n' );
r = ftp_recv_line( socket:socket );
if( r[0] == '2' ) {
WriteableDirs[directory] = 1;
send( socket:socket, data:'RMD ' + directory + sep + str + '\r\n' );
r = ftp_recv_line( socket:socket );
if( ! Saved_in_KB ) {
set_kb_item(name:"ftp/writeable_dir", value:directory);
Saved_in_KB++;
alreadyadded = 1;
}
}
}
send( socket:socket, data:'LIST ' + directory + '\r\n' );
CheckedDir[directory] = 1;
r = ftp_recv_line( socket:socket );
if( r[0] != '1' ) {
close( soc2 );
return 0;
}
while( TRUE ) {
r = recv_line( socket:soc2, length:4096 );
if( ! r ) break;
if( r[0] == 'd' ) {
array = eregmatch(pattern:"([drwxtSs-]*) *([0-9]*) ([0-9]*) *([^ ]*) *([0-9]*) ([^ ]*) *([^ ]*) *([^ ]*) (.*)", string:chomp(r));
if( max_index(array) >= 9 ) {
# if ( Mode == MODE_CHECK_PERM ) {
if( array[1] =~ "^d.......w." ) {
if( alreadyadded == 0 ) {
WriteableDirs[directory + sep + array[9]] = 1;
if( ! Saved_in_KB ) {
set_kb_item( name:"ftp/writeable_dir", value:directory + sep + array[9] );
Saved_in_KB++;
}
}
}
# }
if( array[9] != "." && array[9] != ".." )
dirs = make_list( dirs, directory + sep + array[9] );
}
}
}
close( soc2 );
r = recv_line( socket:socket, length:4096 );
foreach dir( dirs ) {
crawl_dir( socket:socket, directory:dir, level:level + 1 );
}
return 0;
}
port = ftp_get_port( default:21 );
if( ! get_kb_item( "ftp/" + port + "/anonymous" ) ) exit( 0 );
soc = open_sock_tcp( port );
if( ! soc ) exit( 0 );
if( ! ftp_authenticate( socket:soc, user:login, pass:pwd ) ) exit( 0 );
crawl_dir( socket:soc, directory:"/", level:0 );
ftp_close( socket:soc );
if( isnull( WriteableDirs ) ) exit( 0 );
foreach dir( keys( WriteableDirs ) ) {
report += ' - ' + dir + '\n';
}
if( report ) {
security_message( port:port, data:report );
exit( 0 );
}
exit( 99 );
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